The Utah Hockey Club take on the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
UTAH (32-29-11) at PANTHERS (43-25-3)
7 p.m. ET; Utah16, SCRIPPS, NHLN, SNW, SNO, SNE
Utah projected lineup
Clayton Keller — Logan Cooley — Nick Schmaltz
Michael Carcone — Barrett Hayton — Dylan Guenther
Lawson Crouse — Jack McBain — Josh Doan
Alexander Kerfoot — Kevin Stenlund — Nick Bjugstad
Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino
Ian Cole — Sean Durzi
Olli Maatta — Michael Kesselring
Karel Vejmelka
Matt Villalta
Scratched: Mattias Maccelli, Nick DeSimone, Kailer Yamamoto
Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), Liam O’Brien (lower body)
Status report:
Utah did not hold a morning skate following an 8-0 loss at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday. … Utah recalled Villalta from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Friday. … Goalie Jaxson Stauber was reassigned to Tucson.
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Panthers projected lineup
Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Mackie Samoskevich — Sam Bennett — Brad Marchand
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer — Nico Sturm — Evan Rodrigues
Gustav Forsling — Seth Jones
Niko Mikkola — Nate Schmidt
Uvis Balinskis — Tobias Bjornfot
Sergei Bobrovsky
Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Tomas Nosek, Jonah Gadjovich
Injured: Matthew Tkachuk (lower body), Dmitry Kulikov (upper body)
Suspended: Aaron Ekblad
Status report:
Marchand, who has played all 1,090 of his NHL regular-season games with the Boston Bruins, is expected to make his Panthers debut; he was acquired in a trade March 7 and had been out since March 1 with an upper-body injury. … Kulikov, a defenseman, is expected to start skating next week and could return to the lineup before the end of the regular season, Florida coach Paul Maurice said.
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